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Date:      Mon, 05 Mar 2001 09:08:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/docs Makefile
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010305090852.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010305093857.A2592@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>

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On 05-Mar-01 Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:32:55PM +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
>> On 2001-02-24 10:04:10 -0800, Nik Clayton wrote:
>> > nik         2001/02/24 10:04:10 PST
>> > 
>> >   Modified files:
>> >     en/docs              Makefile 
>> >   Log:
>> >   unset(1) returns '1' if the variable doesn't exist, so use the '||'
>> >   operator rather than the '&&' operator.
>> 
>> this is hard to read shell code:
>> 
>> all install clean:
>>         (cd ../../../doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1 && unset DESTDIR || ${MAKE}
>>         FORMATS=ht
>> ml-split DOCDIR=${DESTDIR}/data/docs ${.TARGET})
>> 
>> what does it mean?
>>
>> 1. unset the variable DESTDIR and execute the targets in the 
>>    directory ../../../doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1
> 
> Correct.
> 
> Both the web build and the doc build honour the DESTDIR variable, with
> DESTDIR taking precedence over DOCDIR.  So if you had DESTDIR set in the
> environment to something like /usr/local/www/data/, that's where the
> docs would get installed.
> 
> The "unset" builtin returns a non-zero exit value if the variable
> doesn't exist in the environment.  This halted the build (and is the
> reason why my first commit to this broke the build -- I tested it with
> DESTDIR on the command line, which worked, rather than in the
> environment, which failed).  Hence the '||' connector, rather than the
> '&&' connector which I originally used.

Umm, but if the unset succeeds will it just not do the 'make' command?
I think you want something more like this:

        (cd ../../../doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1 && \
                (unset DESTDIR ; ${MAKE} ...))

?

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